NEW DELHI: The CBI on Tuesday questioned former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia's PA Devender Sharma in connection with alleged corruption in formulating and implementing of the now-scrapped excise policy for 2021-22, officials said.
Sharma, alias Rinku, was called to the CBI headquarters, where he has reportedly been interrogated by members of the anti-corruption section since the morning.
The CBI had arrested Sisodia on February 26 and he was sent to judicial custody by a special CBI court here till March 20, the officials said. According to reports, Sisodia is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday in the Tihar jail.
Sisodia, who was in-charge of the excise department, was not mentioned as an accused in the chargesheet filed in the case on November 25, 2022
Officials claim that while the CBI kept its investigation open against Sisodia and other suspects and accused, it did not include him in the chargesheet.
The CBI alleged that wholesale dealers were given undue profit margins under the influence of a 'south lobby', a coterie of Hyderabad-based businessmen and politicians, in the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP. The policy was later scrapped.
The official had stated, "It was further suspected that unlawful proceeds on account of these crimes were redirected to concerned public workers by private parties by creating fraudulent entries in their books of accounts.
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